Parents named after surviving ‘tragic’ dam crash that claimed the lives of two children

A man and woman from Queensland’s Southern Downs have been identified as the couple involved in a car crash into a dam in the Scenic Rim that claimed the lives of two of their children.

Mel Martin, 33, and Dylan Wadley, 23, were travelling from Pimpama on the Gold Coast to their home in Pratten with their four children about 2:00pm on Sunday.

Their four-wheel drive vehicle broke through a road barrier at Wyaralong Dam, near Beaudesert, rolling down an embankment and flipping on its roof.

The couple were able to escape from the submerged car and helped remove their newborn daughter and their one-year-old son, but they struggled to open the doors to rescue the two older children, a boy aged 13 and a girl aged four.